Why won't Eevee evolve even after renaming it in Pokemon Go?

I read that there's a trick where you rename your Eevee to Rainer and it will evolve into Vaporeon (and likewise, other names will result in other evolutions), but it's not working for me.

This is the only Eevee I have
Eevee has a CP value of 188
I have set its name to Rainer
I restarted the app

What are the possibilities of the things I'm doing wrong? Do I still have to have 25 candies to evolve it?

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Best Answer

in the pokedex it says the the environment in which the eevee lives will affect the way it evolves, but changing where you evolve your eevee will not make a difference. After the update many of my friends and I have been getting almost exclusively Jolteons. Maybe because we have a lot of vaporeons. Renaming your Pokemon Rainer over and over again used to result in a lot of vaporeons, but now it only works once. Jolteons are more common because when you evolve them the cp multiplier is lower, so you can evolve 3 CP 650+ eevees and have three 1300 jolteons :( whole if you'd gotten vaporeons the CPs would have been higher.

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Why is renaming Eevee not working?

You should restart Pokemon Go after naming it Rainer to make sure the game actually changes the name and registers it, and if so, then evolve your Eevee. If the name change didn't stick, change it again and restart again.

Can you still Evolve Eevee by changing name?

Changing the name You can evolve an Eevee into an Espeon (psychic), Umbreon (dark type), Flareon (a fire type), a Vaporeon (a water type) or a Jolteon (an electric type) just by changing your Eevee's name. This trick only works once per name, so do each evolution with an Eevee that has good stats for the best results.

Does the Eevee name trick still work 2021?

Eevee Evolution Name If you never evolved a specific Eevee evolution, you can use the infamous \u201cEevee name trick\u201d to get the desired evolution. Be aware that this trick works only once per evolved form and can't be used repeatedly.

Why WON'T they REMOVE THIS!?!?!

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